‘Hard Boiled’ is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West. – John Woo
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. – John Boyd Orr
Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago when reform was last enacted. – John M. McHugh
The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I’ve spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden. – Laura Hillenbrand
Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn’t care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy. – John Sherman Cooper
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. – J. L. Austin
Some day I shall write a novel and call it ‘A Walking Tour in the Congo’ or ‘Thrills and Spills in Aeronautics’; but I keep this type of title as a last & mercenary resort. – Louis MacNeice
According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September. – Kenneth H. Cooper
Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary. – John Hawley
Writing is rewriting; rewriting is writing – from the first crossed-out word in the first sentence to the last word inserted above a caret, that most helpful handwritten stroke. – John Casey
With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo. – John Boyle O’Reilly
I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really. – Meryl Streep
I’m not a cineaste. I’ve made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one. – Leos Carax
The last couple of practices, all we’ve been doing is a lot of defensive things. We’ve been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate. – Kevin Garnett